ARGUMENT. THE subject proposed. Inscribed to the countess of Hartford. The season is described as it affects the various parts of nature, ascending from the lower to the higher; with digressions arising from the subject. Its influence on inanimate matter. Ön vegetables. On brute animals. And last, on man. Concluding with a dissuasive from the wild and irregular passion of love, opposed to thato a pure and happy kind. SPRING. COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And see where surly Winter passes off, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, 3 At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, Lifts the light clouds sublime, and spreads them thin, Drives from their stalls, to where the well us'd-plough They lend their shoulder, and begin their toil, The harrow follows harsh, and shuts the scene. Be gracious, Heav'n! for now laborious man |